teabagger
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈtiːˌbæɡər/
- Slur
- No, Cam, it would be more in line that the teabaggers would turn it into a photo op.
Examples
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Do we believe the teabaggers are aware of the O claiming he can assassinate American citizens?
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There were several thousand people there, with only a tiny smattering of teabaggers opposed to reform.
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If change is what you want, you should take a page out of the teabaggers' book.
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Cherry, perhaps you and the Republicans/teabaggers do not understand America.
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I hear some of the teabaggers would have preferred an actual default.
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But for the teabaggers on this thread, anything not hanging off the right-wing cliff is left.
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Other Republican/Teabaggers are moderating their stance, although I'm not convinced, even remotely, that they are serious.
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Yeah, there are some libertarians who are ridiculously optimistic and take the teabaggers and other Republicans at their word.
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Mitt the moderate and Mitt the teabagger are both masks he's at least mildly uncomfortable with.
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Critics often refer to the supporters of the Tea Party as teabaggers to express their disdain for the movement.
How Derogatory
- Literature
75
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- Slur
14
9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
teabagger = teabag (opaque) = teabag + er
The political pejorative meaning is a derogatory slang sense whose political/insulting association is not derivable from the literal 'tea' + agentive '-er' by an average learner.
Etymology
Teabagger is an offensive or insulting name for a supporter of the US Tea Party; it puts Tea together with the ending -er that means 'a person', and people also linked it to the slang 'teabagging' to mock those supporters, so it became an insulting label.